She is intensely frustrated by her husband""s rejection:Maggie: Why are you looking at me like that?Brick: Like what, Maggie?Maggie: Like you were just lookin"".The Riddler then proposed: "You will help me steal production capital so I can put a Box on every TV in town and become Gotham""s cleverest carbon-based life form.The stuff nightmares are made of.The children still feared me, and their fear gave me the power to invade their dreams, and that""s when the funreallybegan.They bring him in for "plain drunkenness."The scene in the police station cleverly introduces he three principal characters as they are each separately hauled in for varying reasons on this late Easter night, and their paths cross.The tough, ruthless cop""s selfish, solitary pursuit of the white-hot apocalyptic object in a mysterious ""Pandora""s box"" ("the great whatzit") leads to nuclear catastrophe and annihilation during the explosive ending at a Malibu beach cottage - although there is no explicit mention of the words bomb, atomic, or thermo-nuclear in the nihilistic film.